Organized at Madison, Wis.,
October 18 to December 13, 1861. Left State for Fort Leavenworth, Kansas,
January 11, 1862. At Weston, Mo., till February 15. Reach Fort Leavenworth
February 16. Attached to Dept. of Kansas to June, 1862. District of Columbus,
Ky., Dept. of the Tennessee, to October, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division,
District of Jackson, Tenn., to November, 1862. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division,
Right Wing 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, to December,
1862. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, 17th Army Corps, to January, 1863. 3rd
Brigade, 4th Division, 16th Army Corps, to July, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 4th
Division, 13th Army Corps, to August, 1863. 3rd Brigade, 4th Division,
17th Army Corps, to April, 1864. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 17th Army Corps,
to July, 1864. 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 17th Army Corps, to July, 1865.
March from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Scott, Kansas, March 1-7, 1862, and
duty there till March 27. Ordered to Lawrence, Kansas, March 27, thence
to Fort Riley April 20 and to Fort Leavenworth May 27. Moved to St. Louis,
Mo., thence to Columbus, Ky., May 29-June 2. Repairing Mobile & Ohio
Railroad and duty at Union City and Humboldt, Tenn., till October 1. Moved
to Bolivar October 1 and duty there till November 2. Grant's Central Mississippi
Campaign, operations on the Mississippi Central Railroad, November 2, 1862,
to January 10, 1863. Reconnoissance from La Grange toward Hilly Springs
November 8, 1862. Moved to Lumpkin's Mills December 24, thence march to
Colliersville, Tenn., via Holly Springs, Moscow and Lafayette, and guard
duty along Memphis & Charleston Railroad till March 14, 1863. Moved
to Memphis and duty there till May. Expedition to Coldwater River April
18-24. Hernando April 18. Perry's Ferry, Coldwater River, April 19. Ordered
to Vicksburg, Miss., May 11. Siege of Vicksburg, Miss., May 22-July 4.
Advance on Jackson, Miss., July 4-10. Siege of Jackson July 10-17. Duty
at Vicksburg till August 15. Ordered to Natchez, Miss., August 15, and
duty there till November 22. Expedition to Harrisonburg September 1-8.
Near Harrisonburg and capture of Fort Beauregard September 4. Ordered to
Vicksburg, Miss., November 22 and duty there till February, 1864. Meridian
Campaign February 3-March 2. Champion's Hill and Bolton's Depot February
4. Canton February 29. Veterans on furlough till May. Nonveterans on duty
at Vicksburg till April, then Join Regiment at Cairo, Ill. Moved to Clifton,
Tenn., May 5-14, thence march to Ackworth, Ga., via Huntsville and Decatur,
Ala., and Rome, Ga., May 14-June 8. Atlanta (Ga.) Campaign May 8 to September
8. Operations about Marietta and against Kenesaw Mountain June 10-July
2. Assault on Kenesaw June 27. Nickajack Creek July 2-5. Howell's Ferry
July 5. Chattahoochie River July 5-17. Nickajack Creek July 6-8. Leggett's
or Bald Hill July 20-21. Battle of Atlanta July 22. Siege of Atlanta July
22-August 25.
Ezra Chapel July
28. Flank movement on Jonesboro August 25-30. Battle of Jonesboro August
31-September 1. Lovejoy Station September 2-6. Operations against Hood
in North Georgia and North Alabama September 30-November 3. March to the
sea November 15-December 10. Siege of Savannah December 10-21. Campaign
of the Carolinas January to April, 1865. Pocotaligo, S.C., January 14.
Salkehatchie Swamp February 2-5. Binnaker's Swamp, South Edisto River,
February 9. Orangeburg February 11-12. Columbia February 16-17. Battle
of Bentonville, N. C., March 19-21. Occupation of Goldsboro March 24. Advance
on Raleigh April 10-14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House
April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. March to Washington, D.C.,
via Richmond, Va., April 29-May 19. Grand Review May 24. Moved to Louisville,
Ky., June. Mustered out July 20, 1865.
Regiment lost during service 3 Officers and 93 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 3 Officers and 224 Enlisted men by disease. Total 323.
The 12th Wisconsin, at Atlanta (battle of July 21st and 22d), 42
killed, 147 wounded, (*) and 20 missing; the 15th,(+) or "Scandinavian
Regiment," at Stone's River, 15 killed (including the Lieutenant-Colonel),
70 wounded, (*) and 34 missing, and at Chickamauga, 13 killed (including
Colonel Heg), 53 wounded,(*) and 45 missing; the 20th, at Prairie Grove,
50 killed, 154 wounded, (*) and 13 missing; the 22d, at Resaca, 11 killed,
56 wounded, and 1 missing; the 29th, at Champion's Hill, 19 killed, 92
wounded, (*) and 2 missing, and, at Port Gibson, 10 killed and 65 wounded. Wisconsin Military History of
the 12th Wisconsin.
Camp Randall, Madison, Wisconsin.
